Play a movie file which is currently playing?

[ReAnimator]

Hi,
is there a way to play a movie file from the beginning which is currently playing?
An example game is attached so please look at it.
If this is not featured somehow I think it's very important.

[Divona]

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label start:
    scene black
    e "Here comes red ball."
    show movie test
    e "It's partially looping(brilliant feature btw) but I want this movie file to play again."
    e "How would you do that?"
    hide movie test
    $ renpy.pause(0.0)
    show movie test
    e "I put show statement again but it won't happen perhaps because Ren'py is smart enough to avoid nonsense."
    e "In case of static images that's great but when it comes to movie playback this seems nonsense."

    return

[ReAnimator]

Thanks for quick reply and a solution!
Didn't know this trick.
I still hope more elegant way to do this but at least it's possible.
Thanks, Divona.

--edit

Uh... there's a slight gap between hide and show... The screen goes complete black for an instant. Unfortunately not acceptable.

[Divona]

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label start:
    scene black
    e "Here comes red ball."
    show movie test
    e "It's partially looping(brilliant feature btw) but I want this movie file to play again."
    e "How would you do that?"
    $ renpy.play(renpy.music.get_playing(channel="test"), channel="test")
    e "I put show statement again but it won't happen perhaps because Ren'py is smart enough to avoid nonsense."
    e "In case of static images that's great but when it comes to movie playback this seems nonsense."

    return

[ReAnimator]

Okaaay, you nailed it.
One problem that is not introduced in the example.
Say there are other movie files which use this method and they play in a irregular way.
That means you don't know the order of playing files.
Since this method returns the file name currently playing, it cannot use different files.

--edit

Silly me, just using renpy.play() was good enough.